2023-08-11 00:31:00
For months, violence between unions has been escalating. This year there are elections in the Union of Workers and Cleaning, Services and Allied Employees of Córdoba (Soelsac) and it seems that they will not be calm. Now everything ends in Courts.
It was known that Franco Saillén, union leader of the Collectors Union (Surrbac) and director of the Cormecor SA firm, was criminally denounced for public intimidation, instigation to commit crimes, repeated threats and repeated harm. The complaint was presented by Sergio Fittipaldi, the head of the Soelsac union.
According to the lawyer who made the court filing, Alexis Kohmann, Fittipaldi attributes to Saillen “multiple acts of intimidation that negatively affect public peace, while they have created a climate of fear and violence, and have generated a feeling of insecurity in the population, mainly in the group of workers united in the Union of Workers and Employees of Cleaning CompaniesServices and Related Services of Córdoba (SOELSAC)”.
All the events take place in a context where this year authorities of a union that represents some 20,000 members must be renewed, an interesting loot for the Sailléns.
In the middle of his electoral process, internal violence escalates in the cleaning union
In this 2023, the union’s board of directors must be elected, and Fittipaldi denounces “acts of intimidation and incitement that range from the aggression on the social networks of Saillén himself, to aggressions -breaking vehicles and attacks with fist bumps- and threats to workers affiliated with the trade union institution and acts of vandalism to the trade union headquarters”.
The complaint
Sergio Fittipaldi, Secretary General of Soelsac, filed a criminal complaint against Franco Saillén before the District 3 Prosecutor’s Office, Turn 5, and the case is being handled by prosecutor Patricia Garcia.
According to Fittipaldi, “the acts of intimidation and incitement culminated in attacks and threats against workers affiliated with the union institution that I represent, acts of vandalism to the union headquarters; false complaints to fellow workers that even led to the raid of our headquarters.”
In a message shared by the networks, Franco Saillén himself warned that workers are “taken to political acts without consent” and that during the management of the current secretary general there was not a single labor conquest. “It has been 17 years since they have had a single conquest, these people have taken it upon themselves to hide the cleaning activity, they never wanted the workers to be well and earn what they have to earn, a dignified salary”, says Saillén as urging Soelsac affiliates to face Fittipaldi in the elections.
The complaint recounts events that occurred at different times this year. In June of this year, videos were shared in which people could be seen arriving in a garbage collection truck and posting posters on the door of the union headquarters of cleaning employees with the legends “”Soelsac back” and “We make poor in Córdoba”.
In another case, they comment on the moments of harassment by people who say they have been visited by several people who identified themselves as sel Surrbac and who collided, according to the story, “on purpose by reversing and then escaping” other people who they were close to Fittipaldi.
Also, in another event that directly involves the Surrbac trade unionist. An affiliate denounced that when she was going to a political act, she was assaulted, beaten and threatened with death by Franco Saillén.
In an interview with Perfil Córdoba, Saillén himself denied the intention of wanting to absorb the union of cleaning employees.
“Surrbac intends to absorb Soelsac?”
—No, because they are different collective agreements. The trade union association law provides for different frameworks.
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